Working as a counsellor is both challenging and very rewarding, and our counselling courses will prepare you for this career. Students gain both practical and theoretical knowledge of counselling, while benefiting from the input of service users to the teaching at Abertay.
We also offer a specialist course in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which in recent years has become one of the most highly regarded ways of effectively treating depression, with a huge growth in demand for CBT services and government support for this technique.
Run by professionals with considerable experience, our counselling courses focus on giving students a solid grounding in the ideas behind counselling practice, as well as the practical techniques that can really benefit patients' lives.
As part of this, placements within a treatment service are available, so students can apply their knowledge in a real clinical setting – gaining invaluable experience, working directly with patients, and developing important professional contacts.
Graduates from the counselling courses at Abertay are well prepared for a career as a counselling professional, with the undergraduate degree delivering the basic certificate needed to proceed to full accreditation as a professional counsellor.
Careers working with individuals with emotional and psychological issues are available in the NHS, voluntary organisations, the social care sector, and community education. Opportunities are available both to work with individuals needing treatment, and those in the later stages of rehabilitation.
The counselling courses on offer at Abertay are:
Graduate Certificate in Counselling Skills
MSc/PGDip Counselling (Full-time and part-time)
PGCert Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
